Social Experiments : Evaluating Public Programs with Experimental Methods

By Larry L. Orr

Book Overview

Written in a friendly, how-to manner, Social Experiments provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how to interpret their results. Through illustrative examples, the author provides a grounding in the experimental method and gives advice on: designs that best address alternative policy questions; maximizing the precision of the estimates; implementing the experiment in the field; data collection; estimating and interpreting program impacts, costs, and benefits; dealing with biases; and the use and misuse of experimental results in the policy process.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761912940
• ISBN13: 9780761912941
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"